(595 quotes found)
“Water is the medicine for indigestion; it is invigorating when the food that is eaten is well digested; it is like nectar when drunk in the middle of a dinner; and it is like poison when taken at the end of a meal.”
Chanakya
“One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine”
William Osler
“Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.”
Karl Marx
“We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering”
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“Cystoscopies gastroscopies biopsies. They can do three or four of those and make five or six hundred dollars in a single day but we get nothing when we use our time to understand the lives of our patients.”
Dr. David Jones
“The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head. Often the best part of your work will have nothing to do with potions and powders, but with the exercise of an influence of the strong upon the weak, of the righteous upon the wicked, of the wise upon the foolish.”
“Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.”
Dr. Richard Selzer
“Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity”
Hippocrates
“Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.”
Ivan Illich
“The miserable hath no other medicine but only hope”
William Shakespeare
